Management of a Wireless Communication Interface of a Terminal

a terminal and wireless communication technology, applied in the direction of bluetooth interface devices, substation equipment, location information based services, etc., can solve the problems of non-negligible impact on the battery life of the terminal and large amount of energy consumption, and achieve the effect of reducing manual procedures and saving battery li

Active Publication Date: 2012-11-08
ORANGE SA (FR)
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[0017]The invention thus makes it possible to activate the appropriate interfaces automatically as a function of the geographical location of the terminal. This relieves the user of any need to manually activate these interfaces via a dedicated menu. These interfaces are thus activated in a manner that is transparent for the user of the terminal.
[0018]The invention makes it possible not only to minimize manual procedures for activating wireless communications interfaces of a terminal, but it also provides significant savings in terms of battery life, since there is no longer any point in keeping the communications interfaces permanently activated.
[0028]The invention thus makes it possible to deactivate the wireless communications interfaces of the terminal automatically as a function of the geographical location of the terminal, and more particularly when its location has changed. This preserves the battery life of the terminal.

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Nevertheless, that option consumes a considerable amount of energy and therefore has a non-negligible impact on the battery life of the terminal.

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[0043]FIG. 1 shows a particular embodiment of a terminal 10 in accordance with the invention, in its environment.

[0044]In the example described here, the terminal 10 is a multimode mobile telephone. Nevertheless, this assumption is not limiting, it being possible to apply the invention to other types of terminal, such as for example: a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), etc.

[0045]The terminal 10 has communications means 11 enabling it to connect to a cellular telecommunications network NW. These communications means 11 comprise in particular a subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a radio interface compatible with the cellular network NW.

[0046]The term “cellular” network is used herein to mean a wireless communications network in which terminals communicate between one another by using dedicated infrastructure involving base stations installed over the territory covered by the network, each base station covering a predetermined geographical zone referred to as ...

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The management method of the invention comprises: an obtaining step (E10) of obtaining information (CId) representative of the geographical location of the terminal; a searching step (E20) of searching in a database of the terminal for at least one identifier of a wireless communications interface of the terminal that is associated with said information; and if such an associated identifier is found, an automatic activation step (E50) of activating the wireless communications interface corresponding to said at least one identifier.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the general field of telecommunications.[0002]More particularly, it relates to activating a wireless communications interface on a terminal, such as, for example, an interface of the Bluetooth™, or WiFi™ (Wireless Fidelity) type.[0003]The term “activation” (or correspondingly “deactivation”) is used herein with respect to a wireless communications interface to mean switching on or starting the interface (or correspondingly switching it off). In other words, in the meaning of the invention, a wireless communications interface does not transmit any signal (not even a presence signal), so long as it is not activated.[0004]In general manner, wireless communications interfaces of the Bluetooth™ or wireless local area network (WLAN) type enable a terminal to connect to a home network or to a private or public communications network via an access point. This connection is possible only when the communications interface is ac...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04W4/02H04W24/00H04M1/72451H04W4/021H04W4/029
CPCH04W48/18H04W64/00H04W8/22H04W48/20H04W4/02H04W48/02H04W4/021H04M2250/02H04M2250/06H04M2250/10H04M1/72451H04M1/72457H04W4/029
Inventor BOURNELLE, JULIENMORAND, LIONEL
Owner ORANGE SA (FR)
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